Florence 1986. A seemingly inexplicable attack on a church fresco of Adam and Eve brigns together an unlikely couple: Julia Wellbeloved, an English art student, and Pino Fratelli, a semi-retired detective who longs to be back in the field. Their investigation leads them into the secret society that underpins the city; an elite underworld of excess violence and desire. The Flood takes the reader on a dazzling journey into the darkness in Florence's past: the night of the great flood in 1966...